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` J. M. GOMINS.

RAILROAD GAB, STOVE.

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JAMES ooj'MINs, or vNew Yeux, if.v

` Letters' Patent N 106,124, dated August l9, 1870.

RAILROAD-CAR STOVE.

The Schedule reffmd to in these Letters Patent and making 'part of the lame To all persons to whom tltesepresents may come:

Be it known that I, Jantes M. Comms, M. D.oi'

the cit-y, county, and State oi' Ncw-Yorlghave invented a new and useful Apparatus for Heating and Ventilating a 'Railway-arriage;` and (lo-hereby declare the same` to be fully described in the lbllowing specification, and` represented in the accompanying drawing, ot' which" Figure 1 denotes a l"igitn`dinal section.

Figure 2, a sideclevation; and.

Figure 3, a transverse section of thcsaid apparatus.

A denotes the `lire-place or chamberforcoxnbustiou 1of thefuel, itbeing provided with agrate, B, aud also with an ash-chamber, O, beneath such grate.

Anfuelsupply hopper orfeservoir, D, is arranged over the chambceA, such reservoir being furnished with an opening, eiwit-s top, having a door, b, hinged toit. Thereextends hp 'iomkthe lower end, or part of the hopper or fuel-reserroir D, a hollow cylinder, c, which is closed att-op, open at bottom, and furnished with a series of educts or opeuiugs,.1, arranged in its sides.

Within this cylinder is a weighted. conical valve, e, fixed to a stem, f,which extends up through 4the fuel reservoir. Furtliermore, there is arranged within the fuel-holder D, so as to project from its sides, a series` of arms or project-ions, g, whose purpose is to prevent the too ready discharge of fuel from the holder D, while the valve maybe raised, anil the railway carriage containing the apparatus may be in motion.

'lhereis a flue-space, F, snrroundin g the fuel-holder D, and furnished with anescape-pipe, G, leading from it, in nlannerasrepresented.` This due-space is over the chamber oi' combustion, and separated'therefrom by the top i1' of the lat-ter, through which is au' opening,

c', provided with a damper or valve, d.

In respect to the grate ofthe fire-place", it is shown more lparticularlyin top riew in ii". 4, with its bars h closed, or in'position for enabling wood to be used as fuelinit.`

Each of such liars'is pivoted at its opposite ends in .a frame, i, the pivots 7c being disposed attheupper corners of the bar, 'or eccentricall y, in manner as represented inlig'ure 5, which is a side View oi one of` the grate'hi rs', f Y

Figure (i is an 'end view` of suchv bar. Inother words, -the pivots4 are 'disposed aside of the a'riis of the bar, in consequence ot'` which the har may be arranged to stand `so that its `dat side may be either vertical, or nearly so, or` horizontal, or nearly so.

'lhe bars, when turned up into horizontal positions; as they muy be by ruiming a rod, l, through the apparatus, andn-gainst them, such rod then being arranged, as shown in iig. 3, adapt the grate for the burning ci wood in the chamber of' combustiombnt, whenthe rod is withdrawn, so as to allow the gravitating grate-bars to fall intovertical positions, the spaces between them will.' be enlarged, and -the grate he in a condition for the'linrning of coal iu the chamberA.

There are to be openings, 'ni n.,`to the iirefplace and ash-chambers, such openings beingr furnished; with doors, op. j

Immediately underneath the ash-.chamber is another chamber, H, semieireular, or thereabont, in transverse section. Extendingacross the' chamber H, at a short'distance from its rear 'l end, is a partition, g, having a hollow cone, 1', proiectiug backward from it, in manner as represented. The partition-is perforated with numerous holes, s.

A narrow due-space, 1, extends underneath' thel bottom of the chamber H, and up against the sides of v .the re and ash-chambers, and opens `at top into the chamber 'of combustion byv a `series of openings, t,

made through'one side of the latter, and arranged in manneras shown in iig.v 3.

The due-space I, atiits opposite end, also'opens into the vflue-space l".4 At its real-.end the chamber H opensi'nto a vertical air-supply pipe or conductor, K, whose lower part opens through the door ot' the railway carriage, and is providedwith a damper or valve',

zu, lche whole being as represented.

The `air-conduit is to extend through the root', and above the top of the'trailway carriage, and is to be sin-mounted by a` hood, L, which is to be open at its opposite end s, and furnished-with a partition, c, arranged Vat its middle, in manner as' shown, the same being so as to cause air to be blown .hito the conduit in whichever direction the railway carriage at any time may be iumovement on the railway track.

The air-supply line may have, near its lower-end, a

' hole in its side-such hole to be furnished with 'a closiu g slide, fw, and being for the pui-pose'of letting cool air into the carriage or space about'the heat-ing and ven tilating apparatus, as occasion may require, in order to modify or lessen the temperature of the air in the carliage.V U I From the front end of the chamber H a. pipe or conduit, L', leads into an evaporatiug vessel, M, to-

contain wat-er, such vessel having a foraminous partition, x, extended across it above the water-space. This partition is to preveutthe water lfrom heilig swashed up intothe chamber H, 'or 'an air-conduit, N, while thc carriage may be im motion. p

The-said air-conduiU'N ist@ lead out oi' the 'craporating vessel,` and along underneath the severalseats of the railway carriage, and should', hare air-rents or openings to supply the warmed nir to the' parts com tiguons to the seats. l Y.

Guard-dues, O O, are arranged against the cuter sides of the tine-spaces I, these lines O O being open at or near their tops, as shown aty, and at their bottoms, as shown ats, where the)` lead into a hollow base, l, provided with openings, u', through its sides,

and composing part ot' the apparatus The operation ot' the apparatus above explained may be thusexplaimed.

While the railway carriage is in motion, nir will be caused to enter the supply-pipe K; such ait' will be forced down the pipe, and into the-air-hea'ting chamher H, and will impinge againstits cone y'r, and, by it, will be directed toward the perfor-ations ot' the parti-A tion y. l`he air will liowthrougl'i theopenngs o'lf such partition, and, by reason of thehollow con, it will be more. or less retarded in its dow through-theehamocr H, in which itwill be heated by the heat that may be l-ldlld 'I'OHl its SideS- .From the chamber H the air so'f-lnfated will escape by the oonduitslealling into and front the evaporatiug vessel M ,A The smoke and volatile,products of combustion of :he fuel in the tire-place will pass therefrom into the tine-space 1,'ou oneside ofthe lire-place, thence down such, and underneath and around the air-heating chamber H, thence up the tlne-space l,in the opposite side ot' the tire-place, andv from thence into the sp'aee F, auth-finally, into the` smoke-discharge flue leading therefrom.

The apparatus may be. employed to glv'eatadvantage 'in heating and ventilating railway carriages, dwellings,

or other structures.

I claimy The arraugemcntand combination of the open hoods or bonnets L, made and provided with a partition, r,

as described, the air-duct K, the air-heating chamber H, the perforated partition y, and the eone r, with the ash and tire-chau'ibers A C disposed as specified.

Also, the combination and arrangement of the cone -r, and perforated partition g, with the air-heating chamber H arranged under the ash-chamber i, as set forth Also, thefuel-snpply reservoir D, as provided with the seriesof arroser prongs, y, for the purpose specf ied. 1

Also, the fuel-supply reservoir D, as made or pro vided with the hollow cylinder c, and the dischargeopenings 1I, and valve e, arranged as described.

. Also, the arrangement of the evaporating vessel M, and its air-conduits, with the air-heatingchmnber dis` posed beneath the'ash-chalnber, and provided with an `air-supplying apparatus, as set forth.

Also, the air-heating andventilating apparatus constructed substantially in manner and so as to operate as described, and. consisting of the chamber ot' combustion A, the ash-chamber C, the fuelLsuppiy reservoir 1), the flue-space F, around the latter the tiuespace, I, and air-heating chamber H, theguard-fines O O, the hollow. base P, the air-supply conduit' K, and its bonnet or hood L', as explained, such being provided with one or more ducts for the distribution of thmheated air, as set forth.

` J. M. GOMINS, M. D.

Witnesses Urns T. HALL J. W. KENE. 

